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December is traditionally a month for looking back over the year and reflecting on what has been achieved.

In the build up to Christmas, I usually find time amongst the manic present wrapping sessions and the social events to go to a carol service.

Having joined the CIOT just a month earlier, and having largely been a VAT specialist throughout my tax career, I had paid little attention at the Budget of March 2015 when George Osborne proclaime

It is coming around to that time of the year when the tax world slows down a pace in preparation for the December break and New Year festivities.

Party conferences can be frenetic and feverish at the best of times.

Tax has become such a fluid and uncertain area that you never know what is going to happen in that intervening period.

The Autumn is a very busy time in the Presidential Calendar; by the time you read this, I will have chaired our October Council meeting, and met many volunteers at the Presidential Reception.

By the time you are reading this, two major events will have occurred.

Which areas interest you the most? How well is your area of tax covered? Do you read the magazine in print or online? What would you like to see more of?

One of the most common comments by those who have been involved in an unsuccessful tax scheme is that they didn’t understand it, or thought it set out to do something different.